Nicholas DELPERDANG was born on March 9th 1829 in Warnach <•>, a small village at 10 km south of Bastogne (Belgium). He was the fifth of the eleven children of Michel Joseph DELPERDANGE and Anne Marie KLAINES.

On 22/05/1855 <•> in his village of WARNACH, he married Josephine STEMPERT from the nearby village of Tintange. She was born in Tintange on 02/09/1830, as the daughter of Jean Pierre STEMPERT (who died on 02/05/1843 in Tintange) and Marguerite VIANA.

Nick DELPERDANG (1829-1912) and his wife
Josephine STEMPERT (1830-1872)

A year after their marriage, Josephine gave birth to a first child, Nicolas, who was born in Warnach (Belgium) on 16/06/1856<•>. We found no further information about that child, but as their next child, born two years later in the U.S. will carry the same name, we can assume that he died very soon, just before their departure or even while they were traveling to the States.

Between 1856 and 1858, Josephine and Nicholas left their village in Belgium and emigrated to the United States, as many Belgians and Luxemburgers did at that time. Many of them settled in small towns around Dubuque, Iowa. This is on the eastern side of the state and at the time was on the edge of Midwest settlements. As west of there opened up from the native American Indians, they moved further west.

At their arrival in the States, their name lost the final "e", and became DELPERDANG.

Nicholas and his wife first settled in St. Donatus (Eastern Iowa) where their first child was born. Then they moved to Plymouth County by rail, after stopping in Springbrook and LeMars.

As far as we know, they had six children :

Downtown REMSEN
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About 1870, Nicholas and his wife finally arrived in Remsen (Plymouth county), in the Northwestern part of the state IOWA.Their first home was built with sod and located seven miles northwest of Remsen, between Remsen and Alton. Soon after, in November 1872, his wife Josephine died in Jackson Co.

On the 1880 U.S. Federal Census ,  Nicholas, aged 51,  is shown living in Remsen (Plymouth County), as a farmer and widower.  Four older children are living with him <•>.

Nicholas died in Remsen on Friday 23rd February 1923, at the age of 83, and was buried in the Alton Cemetery <•>. A newspaper article reported about his death as follows :

The six children of Nicholas DELPERDANG and Josephine STEMPERT got married and had many children :

Anton and Katharina DELPERDANG, with their children Clara, George, Vincent, Blanche, Hugo and Martha.

Peter SCHILTZ and Margaret DELPERDANG

Currently many descendants of Nicholas, and thus of Henri HANSY, are still living in this area, and a lot of them still carry the name  DELPERDANG.

In the cemetery near the St. Mary's Church in ALTON (Sioux County, IOWA U.S.A) some gravestones still remember us the first generations of descendants of Henri HANSY in the United States.

In Remsen, more than a century later, the influence of those Luxemburg immigrants is still visible. The town's motto is : "Little Luxemburg of Iowa", the architecture of some houses and dishes and food still remind of the German-Luxemburg roots of many inhabitants, who  every year in October organize the "Oktoberfest in Remsen",  as an Annual Celebration of Bavarian Heritage in northwest Iowa.

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Most of this information was collected by Darin DELPERDANG, Joan SHIPLEY, and Becky ARENS KRAFT,  descendants of Michel DELPERDANGE and Anne Marie KLAINES.

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